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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-11-03
IN A CROWDED HOTEL.
How an Experienced Commercial Tourist
Secured a Room.

How an Experienced Commercial Tourist
Secured a Room.
Standing in the Office of popular
hotel one evening this week and
watching 1.-THE gentlemanly clerk
turn away traveller after traveller with
the statement that the house was full.
I was reminded of the clever way in
which an experienced drummer Sc
cured room IN a hotel where a
similar state of affairs existed. 1t was
one of the mushroom towns in the oil
regions. just after the opening up of a
new field. Our drummer arrived at
the hotel about one o'clock at night.
He deposited his veteran gripsack
on the counter. registered himself with
rubber stamp, and in the jaunty tone
customary with commercial travellers,
remarked to the clerk: "Ah, there,
old chappie! Do / get the bridal
chamber?'
mot much" replied the clerk; 1--WE
are full. Give you good. warm seat
by the stove"
''Will you. now7 I don't believe
you will. Let's see the call-book.
Here Dave, Cunning to the bell-boy),
call As. Tell him it's quarter of FIVE,
and that he's got just fifteen minutes
to catch his train
There was no resisting the drum.
mers authoritative tone, especially as
it was backed up by a moderate-sized
bride. Dave disappeared sleepily up
the stairs. and our drummer stepped
upon chair In front of the Office
clock. Having made the clock gain
three hours and half on itself in
less than rs many minutes, he leaned
against the counter, handed the clerk
better cigar than is manu- + actured
in the oil regions and awaited devel-
opments.
did you do the business, DaveP'
he inquired of that individual, as he
slouched back into the room from his
journey upstairs. what did he say?"
He told me to go to thunder with
the train" said Dave. 'but he's get
tin up just the same"
The drummer had just finished tell
ing the clerk the latest fairy story cur
rent in New York. when shaggy in
ulflu ud1 CdIlc uONH 6tdlES dUu 1utO
the office. He looked at the clock, and
then took out his watch There SEEM
ed to be a discrepancy somewhere,
and never was q watch SO sworn at
before. The shaggy party
was an adept in scientific
profanity, and called his time-piece
all the liars there are in the diction-
airy, qualified by many adjectives not
to be found in that respectable volume.
The time indicated by the clock did
not permit of this enjoyment continu-
ing long and, buttoning up his over
coat, he started for the dept. As the
door closed behind him the drummer
again mounted the chair and stopped
the clock. The hands indicated that
the time was five minutes to five.
THAT takes care of you, old man."
he remarked to the clerk, as he picked
up his grip and started for nights
peaceful slumber in room No. 46. '1f
he comes back and wants to wipe the
floor up with you. tell him there's
something queer with the clock. Tia,
ia, old boy."-M T. Letter.
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also said that he would report the case
to the General and have the man prop
erly punished After this he went of
with his troops to the drill ground,
where he found an opportunity to
speak to the General The latter die
rected that the man should be sent to
the Quartermaster-Gen depart
ment and dealt with there. A file OF
soldiers were sent to take him across,
but they found him lying down UNI
able to move. When questioned he
said that he was afraid of being fur
Their punished after the foggings he
had received and had swallowed some
opium which had been left from an
entertainment given the day before.
Remedies were applied. but without
avail and in short time he was
dead
The Memorialist finds that Telengo
was right In ordering the deceased to
be ehastised, and that the fiogging
was inflicted on proper portion of
the body. But the amount of the pun
ishment one hundred and eighty
blows, was excessive. He therefore
condemns Telengo to receive ninety
blows, under the statute which deals
with the offense of causing mans
death by Furnishing him improperly.
In addition, Telengo must pay It's. 10
towards the deceased's funeral ex-
penses. As Telengo is commissioned
officer it will be the duty of the Board
of Punishments to determine what
form the penalty shall actually take.
Futunga who administered the beat
ing, is condemned to receive eighty
blows The soldiers who were guard
ing the deceased are condemned to
receive sixty blows, under the law
Furnishing gaolers who allow prison.
er to commit suicide. As Ssu-hai, by
quarreling with the deceased, was the
original cause of what has occurred,
he is condemned to receive eighty
blows. Yu-ch' eng being dead, no fur
Their notice need be taken of his offense,
and his debt to Ssu-hai is extinguish-
ed.-NorM China Herald
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those of his own blood. Once or twice he
had even himself experienced it, in mild
form, and had, hitherto, been victorious in
his conflicts with it.
He felt the spirits sudden awakening
now. In the first fear of his struggle with
it, he groaned aloud, and exclaimed:
''My God, What shall dor
Slowly and with difficulty collecting his
scattered senses, he was about to rush he
knew not whither-any1chere to rid himself
of this well-nigh irresistible impulse, that
was filling him.
At this moment, there fell upon his ear
gay peals of laughter, floating down the
road-a bass apd treble in pleasant accord.
He drew further back into the bushes to
conceal himself. They soon appeared-evi-
IDENTIFY servants of the more intelligent type.
The woman carried, with great care,
frame on which was stretched canvas
bearing the first touches of sketch in oil.
The man had charge of the easel. The two
were casting affectonate glances, one at
the other; quite clearly a pair of lovers
who had arrived at happy understand
| ing. So simple and open were they in as
| Stunning the role, supposed to be natural
to young people thus affected. that their
unseen watcher could hardly refrain from
| smiling at the various delicate little evil
dences of fondness each showed for the
other.
They passed out of sight, but not before
| the young man perceived their relation to
| the first conner. She had been sketching,
| probably; and these two, no doubt, were her
maid and her groom. Sunset fastening on,
| very likely, she left her easel and sketch in
| their charge and mounting her horse
galloped on ahead, towards home.
But, who was shea Some one of high
| rank, evidently. He must, and would dis
| cover.
All meditation now fed from him. a
| fierce desire for action stimulated his whole
being. The old man spirit began to awake.
| His previous bitter reflections, his plans
for the morrow-in fact, whether there
were any morrow, at all; even his contest
with the dreaded insanity-every thing was
| banished from his mind, save one allah
| sorbing and burning thought, and that the
irresistible desire and unconquerable re-
solve to learn who she was, where was her
home, and then-whatl Even his extrava-
gance did not dare say.
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PlTh AND POINT.

Good takers are like doubts
easily entertained
1t is hard so to fix responsibility
hat it will 'tstay put
Some people are so sensitive that
hey seem to have corns all over them
Judge.
Talk may do all the shouting. but
Go-get-it is the one that brings in the
game. Whitehall Times.
Serene and safe from PASSIONS
stormy rage. how calm they glide into
he port of aga -Shenstone
1t ant whut er man Is dat max es
him happy in dis yere worl'. It's
whut he thinks he is.-ArEGnsGU
Traveller.
Generally you never value thing
adequately until after you have lost it;
but this does not apply to bashfulness
Somerpile Journal
Mrs Wabash (of Chicago)
you ready for dinner, dearP' Mr.
Wabash will be as soon as can
take my coat of. "-Su,a
Had we the hours that our neigh
UOI WdsocSs AOW many ACW eAnf9S
coald we learn and how much good
accomplish - Pomeroy's Adrance
Thought
There is no happiness like that of
being loved by your fellow-creatures
and feeling that your presence is an
addition to their comfort.
Nothing but the right can ever
be expedient," says a penny-a-iner
philosopher. and yet everybody knows
that Mr.. Sullivan is famous for the
deadly work that he has got in with
his eft.-SomerviHe Journal
Two of KINDA rather sharp
looking gentleman sat opposite to q
roughly-dressed man on an elevated
car. The roughly dressed man was
remarkable for his bow-legs. my
friend" said the gentleman, pardon
my curiosity, but how did you acquire
such a peculiar curve in your legsP"
when was boy. went in swim
ming one day. When came out ]
laid down on the grass to dry. fell
asleep, and when woke up the sun
had warped my legs replied the
man with the peculiar legs. my
friend" said the gentleman. ''allow
me to take you by the hand. We are
two of a kind. prepare the affidavits
to tho circulation of certain New
York daily paper" -1e1as Sitings.
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GENERAL Won WRIGHT.
An Englishman Who Became q Fam0y
German Cavalry Officer.

An Englishman Who Became Famous
German Cavalry Officer.
In the course of conversation with
the Adjutant of dragon regiment
stationed at Metz learned that he. in
company with some nine or ten BROTH
er officers, had been out on ten
days reconnaissance under the Gem
eral commanding the cavalry division.
The expens es of the trip came partially
if not wholly out of the officers peck
cts My friend spoke of the tour with
the greatest enthusiasm, and went to
the General to obtain from him the de-
tails of the system followed. Now.
the General in question, Won Wright,
an Englishman. whose memory is dear
to all of us officers who made his &C.
quaintance. was one of the most dis
tinguished cavalry officers in the Ger
man army. From Major in q cuirassier
regiment, he was selected by Won
Moltke, although personally unknown
to him, and on professional recon-
mendations only, as his military secre-
tary in 1866; as commander of q cav.
airy regiment he led the Third army
into Chalons; subsequently during the
campaign he held important staff APP
pointmets. including that Of Quarter
master-Gen to Prince Charles dur.
ing the trying LIE Mans campaign. At
the time of this particular visit to Metz
he was the Lieutenant-G General com.
handing the Fifteenth or Frontier
cavalry division. The General was al
ways pleased to talk about his pro-
fession and to give any information
ing was his account of the reconnois-
sance: 1.-The evening before we started
/ Thought out a scheme. At a m.
the following morning met the Off.
GERS, and to each I gave his days
work. which he returned to me com.
pleted at p. m. During the after
noon and the evening I exa mined the
work. and I delivered my criticisms
on it when the officers assembled next
morning." The fact that ! have been
brought up in the English army must
be accepted as an excuse for the blund.
ering question / next addressed to
him: .But, General. how many staff
officers, aide-de-camps. Assistant
Adjutant and Assistant Quartermaster-
Generals had you to do the de-
tails?" None" was the reply; Il
did all the work myself" Here was
a General of the highest professional
standing and reputation--a man who
has won his position by the hardest OF
work in European warfare. and at one
time at peace maneuvers commanded
some f. 600 to 9, 900 sabers--deliberate.
ly employing his spare time in giving
to some dozen regimental officers in.
struction which might fall in our army
to garrison instructor. 1t seems i'm
possible to overestimate not merely
the value of such instruction. but the
impetus given to professional study
among the officers by &c nerals in Won
Wrights position not considering it
beneath them to become instr uctors. -
Nineteenth Century
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-11-03
They Are All Ladies.

"Ah. Mrs. Genteel, how do you do
to-day? 1t is an age since / have seen
you. How is your daughter Katie? !
haven't seen her for long time. !"
..She's quite well. thank you She
is saleslady now at Plush q Silks
store"
"IndeedP And your daughter
Mamie?"
ooh, Mamie is forelady in the new
tomato-canning establishment"
81 hadn't heard that Is Lulu at
home now?''
mo, she has gone to Hartford as
waiting-lady to rery wealthy and
aristocratic woman living there"
.-Oh. has she? Then you have only
Len a at home, presume.
.-Oh, no; Lena has just accepted
situation as nurse lady in the family
Of Judge K. She has an elegant
place"
so you are living aloneP"
mo. we have given up our house
for the winter, and I am now cook
lady at Mrs Blanks boarding house,
-Iid-Bits.
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JUSTICE IN CHINA.
The Blind Goddess Bestows Her Favors
with Unpleasant Impartiality.

The Blind Goddess Bestows Her Favors
with Unpleasant Impartiality.
The Tartar General for Kirin gives
an account of the trial of an officer
named Telengo, one of whose men
committed suicide under the fear of
receiving further punishment The
deceased, Yu-ch' eng by name, was a
government hunter and at the
same time soldier in the
company commanded by Telen-
go. Not long ago he bought
some clothes on credit from a fellow
soldier named Ssu-hai, promising to
give him the money. four thousand
cash, when they received their pay.
On the 9Th of April, while Telengo
was engaged in paying his men. Ssu-
hal asked Yu-che' ng to settle the debt.
Yu-ch' eng refused and quarrel COM
menced between the two men. Telengo
he ard the noise and sent for them. but
when they came they refused to an
swer his questions and behaved in an
insubordinate manner. He therefore
commanded petty officer named Fu-
tunga to fog them.
While Ssu-hai' was undergoing pun
ishment Yu-eh'eng took the oppor-
tunity to run off. but he was recapt-
ured by some soldiers sent after him,
and was given one hundred blows,
with a whip. on the legs. Next morn
ing he ran away again. but was again
brought back. He was punished with
seventy blows, after which ten more
were inflicted by Telengo himself. be-
cause he considered that sufficient Sc
verify was not being used Telengo
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LUCK has COME AT LAST.


plexion. He would strike the careless OBJ
server as a fellow of ordinary attainments
and ability-hg ht-hearted and honest, but
utterly incapable of ''setting the Liffey on
FIRE"
His eyes were a study.
In some lights they looked blue; in others
brown. A closer inspection discovered them
to be decidedly green and mottled with dots
of rusty brown; and it, also, was apt to re-
veal the totally unsupported fact that, far
in their depths-behind an apparent frank
ness and boyishness that seemed to vail
from observation the real motives and feel
ings of the heart and that invariably threw
the stranger off his guard and caused him
to miscalculate as to the ability and designs
of his new cquaintance-behind all this
lurled strong dash of recklessness, yet
withal. determination, which a passing
glance certainly would never give the own
er credit for possessing. This discovery, in
turn, led to the instant conviction that, when
aroused, this apparently easy, good-natured
fellow might develop many surprising
traits-even such as the entire casting aside
of conscientious scruples in order to gain
his ends.
no BE CONTINUED.
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CHAPTER II.
BY HEAVEN, Ill FIND OUT!

BY HEAVEN! Ill FIND OUT
The horse was all but walking. Swinging
into an easy, but rapid, trot, he soon caught
sight of the vehicle again.
Taken up with each other, the lovers
failed to notice the man with set, determined
face and vigilant eye following in the rear;
close beside the woods that bordered the
road where the shades were darkest, keep
ing out of their sight, yet always keeping
them in his.
Luck seemed to favor him. There was no
traveller in view on the road. But, unex-
pectedly, an old peasant, bending beneath a
bundle of fagots, came out of the forest
and, as soon as the carriage had passed,
turned around, with the usual rural curios-
ity, to look after it. So he did not observe
the figure that plunged into by-path
among the trees and, a few moments later,
emerged at a point some distance beyond.
Those servants" reasoned their pursuer,
''can't possibly get out of sight, while I'm
among the trees, because the road is per-
fectly straight for some distance on, yet;
and they're going slowly, too.''
What was his dismay, then, on emerging
from the wood, to see no carriage2
In establishment, he glanced up and down
the road.
Nothing was in sight, except the old
peasant, still toiling on with his bundle of
fagOtS, ana, lar DeyOnO the latter. In the
distance, shepherd, driving a flock of
sheep.
Whittier could they have Disappeared
They, certainly, had not gone on ahead.
On the other hand, he had been especially
careful to glance in the direction from
which they had come. 1t was, therefore,
equally certain that they could not have
turned back, unless-here there came ever
him a dim recollection of certain, half-con-
cealed woodpaths, or lanes, leading into the
forest.
1t was some distance from his present
position to even the nearest of these lanes.
He was very much out of breath, and by
the time he reached the first. darkness
wocld be rapidly falling. Still. he pressed
on. As he hurried past the flock of sheep
the shepherd started after him, evidently
amazed at the sight of q gentleman running
along the public road.
He soon came to wood path on his left
The sheep had nearly obliterated the wheel
tracks from the highway, but he was posi-
tive that he detected faint and apparently
fresh ruts running into this lane.
Onward he plodded, in a logged, deter
mined trot- So dark was it among the
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earnest expression toward the west, where
the red sun was fast sinking behind the low
hills.
Gentleness and repose, strength and in
tellgenee were clearly revealed in that
wondrously pure and lovely face. The soft
rays of the sun lovingly threw about her a
golden halo, and filed all the place with its
rudy, warm light.
She stood forgetfully, until the horse, hav-
ing quenched his thirst, turned his head to-
ward her, and gently whinnying, seemed to
ask why they waited longer.
'Ahi Medji," said she, affectionately
caressing the noble animal who delightedly
rubbed his soft nose against her cheek,
'Ah! Medji, you watchful old fellow I
had forgotten myself"
Leading him to high stone beside one of
the many huge, gnarled oaks that grew
along the way, she babe him stand still.
Medji, who seemed to have an unwonted af-
lection for his mistress, stood obediently
still at her word Her 1.-THE and graceful
form, whose full, rounded curves betokened
health and frequent exercise, lightly swung
itself into the saddle At the word of COM
mand, Medji bore of his beautiful rider,
who disappeared in thsSirection from which
the young man had Just come-a glorious
creature whom the very gods might have
lovedi
Motionless as a statue, daring scarcely to
breathe and gazing after her with straining
eyes, stood the young stranger.
So deep had he been in thought, so far
away from the present, that he had been
taken at unawares. The vision burst upon
him like shock.
Had it, at last, arrived-the fatal moment!
That long looked-for turning point in his
career! And that, too, when he least ex-
pected it.
Among those of his own kith and kin there
occasionally appeared a strange, ungovern-
able spirit which, sometimes, drove its pos
SCISSOR to great extravagancies; or made
him a man of but one overwhelmingly
sorbing idea; and that idea so absurd, so i'm
practicable that, after the spirit left him, no
one could be more amazed at its evil spell
than the unfortunate person himself.
The young man knew well this sudden and
alwayS-unexpected, Berserk-like frailty of
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A School for Scandal.

At social gathering on Austin
avenue the age of Mrs. Peterby was
discussed by several friends.
..She says she is only thirty-five
years DID," giggled Mrs. Coe Yerger,
who is friend of Mrs. Peterby.
..She is one of the most remarkable
women that ever lived" said old JUDI go
DoozenberrY.
"How SO, Judge?'
Because if she is thirty-five years
old, she went to school with me in old
Virginy twenty years before she was
born" -Ieras Sitttngs.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-11-03

Prof. Lodges discovery of the re-
markable effect of static electricity in
freeing the air from dust and vapor
has been utilized by MIR. J. G. Lorrain
in the construction of an apparatus for
dissipating the smoke produced by the
discharge Of cannon. --Arka,'sGU 1TaU-
eIer.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-11-03

"A Sicilian has invented method
by which cremation is accomplished
by means Of electricity. 1t requires
dynamo like those employed for arc
lights, 1t is stated that the effect Of
the intense heat is to vaporize the en-
tire body.
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BAR HARBOR.
"A Wild, Weird Tale of Love
and Adventure.
By AMOS LEE.
PUBLISHED By SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT WITH
THE AUTHOR.
tCoprfGhted 1887, by G. " Dillingham; All
Rights Reser0ed.l
By AMOS LEE.
CHAPTER I
All, WHO WAS THAT

HE season Of 1884
was universally ac-
howledged to be the
most remarkable ever
known In the annals
of the island of Mt.
Desert, that wonder
full Maine summer re-
sort Bar Harbor, its
principal town, be-
came the Mecca of Re
publican politicians.
Mr.. James G.. Blaine,
then Presidential can
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CHAPTER III.
EnTOnf

Gay in heart, rejoicing, yet conscious Of
an accompanying secret, and not altogether
unpleasant, melancholy, he walked rapidly
toward the village which, as he had con-
jectured, he did not reach until after ten.
He found it very quiet Many of the vii
layers We're gone to the castle grounds to
view the festal scene. For there was in
progress ball to which he had been invited.
On a table in his room at the inn, lay
note from his friend, handsome young
Englishman, with whom he had travelled
over the continent.
'sDear Fairfax it ran, 81 can't wait for
you longer. Am off to the ball, but will
send back the carriage for you.-Yours,
Dick OXFORD"
While Mr.. Fairfax is busy, attiring him
self, it may not be amiss to give brief de-
scription of his personal appearance and
past life.
There was nothing especially attractive
in the mans looks. His face had an observ-
ant, rather open and bright expression His
height was barely medium; his form slight.
His features were not even regular. Dark
brown hair and beard, parted in the middle,
formed fitting contrast to his rudy COM